"Informed by personal experience and social psychology, this empowering analysis of self-blame culture is a valuable toolkit for shirking the shackles of shame to live a more satisfying life."
Absorbing and enlightening, in Unlearning Shame Dr Devon Price presents a wholesomely helpful manifesto for understanding the inhibiting — and debilitating — role shame plays in our lives. Sharing how we might overcome the grip of shame — and societal self-blame culture — through clearer understanding, shifts in perspective, and utilising the practical exercises shared throughout the book, it’s thorough, informed by social psychology, and delivered in a lucid, empowering style.
Opening with a powerful personal example of the author’s experience of “Systemic Shame”, along with their “consuming self-hatred and hopelessness”, we read a run-down of indicators that a person might be suffering from systemic shame, from “constantly looking at yourself through the eyes of people who disapprove of you”, to finding it “hard to believe that anyone might really appreciate and care for ‘real’ you.”
After exploring the history of shame, why societies shame, and why shame doesn’t work, Price shifts to cover ways we might overcome self-shame and come to a state of “radical self-acceptance” through finding opportunities for hope, and mobilising a range of implementable behaviours and ways of thinking.
Well-placed to offer readers a renewed sense of optimism and agency in the face of crushing, internalised societal pressures, Unlearning Shame is a butterfly of a book — delicately detailed, fluttery with hope, and we’re all aware of the power of the butterfly effect.
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF UNMASKING AUTISM
'This book articulates a feeling that has lurked in the dark corners of so many minds and brings it into the light where it can be faced, embraced, understood, and ultimately, healed. .' -Celeste Headlee, journalist and bestselling author
How many times a day do you feel shame? Struggling to pay the bills; buying a top made in a sweatshop; reading the news and feeling - yet again - a powerlessness to the point of apathy?
In this bold and transformative manifesto, social psychologist and author of Unmasking Autism Dr Devon Price takes an in-depth look at shame and the role it plays in our lives. Price identifies something called 'Systemic Shame': the powerful self-message that says I am to blame for my circumstances. He explores how it traps us into fighting unwinnable battles and judging others for their failures, and how it especially affects those who are already vulnerable because they're carrying shame from a difficult past or a complicated sense of self-esteem. By unpacking the concept of 'Systemic Shame', this radically positive book shows that there is no such thing as becoming 'good enough' to be deserving of love; we must claim acceptance for ourselves.
Blending the latest social psychology, personal insights and empowering practical exercises, Unlearning Shame is a transformative guide to overcoming self-blame, unlocking self-worth and taking control of your future.
Unlearning Shame features in the following genres: Self Help and Personal Development, Health & Fitness, Popular psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences, Psychology
Unlearning Shame is available in Paperback, Hardback
Unlearning Shame was written by Devon Price and published by Monoray an imprint of Octopus
Unlearning Shame has 368 pages
Yes it is part of Unmasking Autism Series series
£11.69
